Data on marriages presented in this special release were obtained from the Certificates of Marriage submitted by the Municipal Civil Registrars of the province monthly to the Philippine Statistics Authority – Provincial Statistical Office (PSO). Said data were encoded or uploaded into the Vital Events Information system. 

Figures and tables presented herein cover the 1^st quarter of 2024 and 2025 and are still preliminary and may differ from the final counts. 

Registered Marriages in the province increased by 23.61 percent

•     There were 445 registered marriages for the 1^st quarter of 2025 showing an increase of 23.61 percent from the same quarter of last year’s registration of 360.

•    The municipality of Bangued had the most registered marriages with 132, followed by the municipality of San Juan and San Isidro with 38 and 29, respectively. On the other hand, Tineg had no registration of marriage.

•    Municipalities with an increased number of registered marriages for the 1^st quarter of 2025 compared with the same quarter in the previous year are equal with those with decreased figures. While the municipalities of Daguioman, Danglas, Malibcong, Penarrubia and Tineg had the same figures for the same quarters in both years.

•       Five marriages, on the average, were registered daily in the province for the 1^st quarter of 2025.

Table 1. Number of Registered Marriages by Municipality: Abra

1st Quarter 2024 and 1st Quarter 2025

Marriages Peak in March 2025

•     In the 1st quarter of 2025, March had the greatest number of registered marriages with 185 or 41.57 percent of the total registered marriages, followed by January with 150 marriages or 33.71 percent share, and the least was the month of February with 110 marriages or 24.87 percent share.

Figure 1. Number of Registered Marriages by Month: Abra

1st Quarter 2025 

Majority of Marriages in the province were Registered in Bangued

•     Bangued had recorded the highest number of registrations in the 1^st quarter of 2025 with 132 marriages or 29.66 percent the total registered during the quarter, followed by the municipality of San Juan with 38 marriages or 8.54 percent share and San Isidro with 29 marriages or 6.52 percent share.

Figure 2. Municipalities with the Most Number of Registered Marriages: Abra 1^st Quarter 2025

One municipality had no registered marriage for the 1^st quarter of 2025

•     As of the 1^st quarter of 2025, only Tineg had no registered marriage while the municipalities of Danglas and Bucloc ranked second and third as the least number of registered marriages for the quarter with two and three, respectively.

 Figure 3. Municipalities with the Least Number of Registered Marriages: Abra, 1^st Quarter 2025

            Prepared by:                                                             NOTED:

            GUILLERMO B. BERMILLO, JR.                  FELIXBERTO B. PERDIDO

            Registration Officer II                                                Chief Statistical Specialist

Vital statistics are derived from information obtained at the time when the occurrences of vital events and their characteristics are inscribed in a civil register. 

Vital acts and events are the births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and all such events that have something to do with an individual's entrance and departure from life together with the changes in civil status that may occur to a person during his lifetime. Recording of these events in the civil register is known as vital registration and the resulting documents are called vital records.

Marriage is a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family life.